On Friday 18 January 2008 02:19:21 pm Jerry McBride wrote: > On Friday 18 January 2008 01:54:58 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > > > On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > Won't work. He already said the .iso is a *disk* image, not a *file > > > > system* image. > > > > > > > > The ntfs driver (or any sane file system driver) will not know what > > > > to do with a block image complete with partition tables and boot > > > > records. > > > > > > > > alan > > > > > > I don't doubt what you wrote, but I've done exactly that many times > > > and never had a problem. Is this some kind of ntfs support issue? > > > > > > Just this morning, I ran dd to make an image of a usbstick I dearly > > > love... I just now mounted the image as vfat as stated above and I > > > have complete access to the data on it... Is the ntfs module that > > > different? Just curious. > > > > Do you have partitions on that memory stick? > > Yes. >
OK... It just got through my dense head! He has "multiple partitions" in his disk image, not one.... What I proposed will fail in that case, but will work with "just one" partition in the image... It's a shame too. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
